The Minister for Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, on Saturday urged the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, to advocate for good governance of the country. Tallen made the call at a three day 10th triennial delegates conference of NAWOJ tagged “Female Journalists in Contemporary Nigeria” in Minna, Niger. “You should advocate for good governance, security and good health system through your job,” she said. She said that the measure would bring about the development of the country. The Minister advised the women journalists to give priority to gender-based issues concerning women in order to give them a place in…
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President-elect Joe Biden on Friday, spoke with the Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte. The president-elect, in a phone call, thanked Prime Minister Conte for his congratulations and conveyed his commitment to strengthen relations with Italy and revitalize the trans-Atlantic relationship, including through NATO and the EU. Biden told Prime Minister Conte that he looked forward to working together during Italy’s chairmanship of the G20 next year. He also welcomed the opportunity to cooperate on a range of shared interests, including containing COVID-19 and improving global health security, pursuing a sustainable economic recovery, and tackling the threat of climate change.
Novo Nordisk, a multinational pharmaceutical company, on Saturday announced the introduction of a programme to supply free insulin to children living with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in Nigeria and Ghana from 2021. Jude Abonu, Business Unit Head, English West Africa, Novo Nordisk, made the disclosure at a webinar organised by the company to mark the 2020 World Diabetes Day (WDD) with the theme “The Nurse and Diabetes’’ . WDD was created in 1991 by IDF and the WHO in response to growing concerns about the increasing health threat posed by diabetes. The day became an official United Nations Day in 2006…
U.S president-elect, Joe Biden Friday said the crisis of coronavirus in the country, demands robust and immediate federal response, which he observed it had lacked. Biden, who spoke after he met with the co-chairs of the transition COVID-19 Advisory Board, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Dr. David Kessler, and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, also observed that “country is experiencing surges in reported infections, hospitalizations, and fatalities all over the country, with virtually nowhere getting spared.” Read Biden’s speech below, which was posted at build back better.com: Today, I met with the co-chairs of the transition COVID-19 Advisory Board, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Dr. David…
The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) says Nigeria and the United States of America are committed to lead global coalition against ISIS and other terrorist groups in the world. A statement by ONSA on Saturday in Abuja, disclosed that the decision was reached during a virtual meeting of the 82-member global coalition drawn from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East on Tuesday. ONSA said the virtual meeting which was co-chaired by the coordinators of the National Counter Terrorism of Nigeria and U.S. also had the Africa Union, European Union, ECOWAS and G5 Sahel represented among other…
Nigeria has recorded 156 new cases of Coronavirus infections (COVID-19) in 10 states and the Federal Capital City (FCT, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed. With the new infections the NCDC, on its verified website on Friday, put the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 64,884. According to the centre, 146 COVID-19 patients who have recovered from the disease have been discharged from isolation centres across the country in the past 24 hours. It said one coronavirus-related death was recorded within the same period. The NCDC stated that Lagos, the epicentre of the disease in the country,…
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) has, at its 143rd meeting held on Friday. elevated 72 lawyers to the Senior Advocate cadre, the highest number ever, a statement signed by Dr. Festus Akande, on behalf of the committee secretary has said. The committee had in September shortlisted a total of 137 candidates, both at advocate filtration stages and academic pre-qualification exercise, for the conferment of the coveted SAN rank. The 72 successful candidates comprising 62 advocates and 10 in the academia, as against 30 in 2019, would be sworn in on Dec. 14, the statement said. The Supreme Court committee…
Media projections indicate that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will win the election in Georgia, becoming the first Democrat to claim the southern state in 28 years. With this, Biden is expected to finish the presidential race with 306 Electoral College votes, having earlier been projected to win Arizona. Manual recount of nearly five million presidential election votes is ongoing in Georgia where Biden is leading with a margin of 14,111 votes. On the other hand, President Donald Trump is projected to win in North Carolina, bringing his electoral votes to 232. Trump, who has refused to concede, is challenging the election…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it is currently responding to yellow fever outbreaks in Delta, Enugu and Bauchi States, amid reports of 76 deaths recorded in November, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General of NCDC, said. Giving updates on the outbreak in an interview on Friday in Abuja, Ihekweazu said that following the outbreak this month, 1, 2 and 8 cluster cases and deaths were reported to the agency by the State Epidemiologists of the three affected states. He disclosed that 74 suspected cases involving 35 deaths were reported from Delta State; 70 suspected cases with 33 deaths…
Sub-Saharan African countries should invest in innovative wildlife conservation models to stem the escalating human-elephant conflicts driven by competition for space, campaigners said on Friday. John Scanlon, CEO of Elephant Protective Initiative (EPI) Foundation said that urbanisation, shrinking habitat and climatic shocks were behind the spike in violent encounters between African communities and the iconic mammal. “People and elephants are increasingly competing for land and dwindling natural resources,’’ Scanlon said in a statement released in Nairobi. “In recent years we have witnessed a dramatic increase in human-elephant conflict across the continent. If these conflicts cannot be satisfactorily resolved, the long-term…